Chinese Alphabet for Kids

The Chinese language is spoken by over a billion people every day. It is considered one of the world’s most functional languages. China became the largest economy in the world, so the Chinese language is one of the most useful languages you can learn. It is considered one of the earliest and oldest languages in the world.

You may face some obstacles when you start learning the Chinese alphabet, especially when you know that the Chinese language is syllabic. The Chinese language doesn’t have an alphabet like other languages, which means each character written represents a syllable in a word. 

The Chinese use thousands of symbols. They should know about 4000-5000 to master reading a newspaper. There are a lot of Chinese words that only contain one syllable.

What is the Chinese Language called?

The Chinese language is called Pinyin romanization “Roman Alphabet”, and also called Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. “Pinyin” is a system of romanization for the Chinese written language based on the pronunciation of the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese. However, Pinyin is not Chinese.

There are two main systems of writing the Chinese alphabet: the Pinyin system by Mandarin Chinese, and the Zhuyin system used by Taiwan. The Pinyin system employs the same ABCs that English speakers use, and the Zhuyin system employs its own symbols. The pinyin system is more common in use.

There are 26 letters in the Chinese Alphabet similar to the ones we use in the English Alphabet. Sure there are many similarities between the Pinyin and English phonetic systems, but there are many differences as well.

The Chinese Alphabet and its meaning in English 

A 月 (yuè) moon

B 官 (guān)Official

C 匹 (pǐ)Match

D 刀 (dāo)Knife

E 三 (sān)Three

F 下 (xià)Under

G 巨 (jù)Huge

H 升 (shēng)Rise

I 工 (gōng)Work

J 丁 (dīng)Men

K 水 (shuǐ)Water

L 心 (xīn)Heart

M 冊 (cè)Book

N 內 (nèi)Within

O 口 (kǒu)Mouth

P 戶 (hù)Household

Q 已 (yǐ)Already

R 尺 (chǐ)Ruler

S 弓 (gōng)Bow

T 七 (qī)Seven

U 臼 (jiù)Molar

V 人 (rén)People

W 山 (shān)Mountain

X 父 (fù)Father

Y 了 (liǎo)To Know

Z 乙 (yǐ)Second

The Chinese alphabet split into initials, and finals. Initials start the word, and the finals end the word. Initials are consonants and finals are either vowels or start with a vowel.

If you want to speak Chinese well, you should know the English Personal Pronouns and Possessive Pronouns. In English personal pronouns are “I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they”… But in Chinese??? Let’s have a look:

我 ——- I

你 ——- you

他 ——  he

她 —— she

它 —— it

我们 —— we

你们 —— you 

他们 —— they

In English the Possessive Pronouns are “me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them”, Let’s see them in the Chinese Language:

我的——-my or mine

你的——-your or yours

他的——- his

她的——- her

它的——- its

我们的—— ours

你们的—— yours

他们的—— theirs

Let’s Learn Chinese Numbers

No.	Character	Pinyin
0	零	líng
1	一	yī
2	二	èr
3	三	sān
4	四	sì
5	五	wǔ
6	六	liù
7	七	qī
8	八	bā
9	九	jiǔ
10	十	shí
11	十一	shí yī
12	十二	shí èr
13	十三	shí sān
14	十四	shí sì
15	十五	shí wǔ
16	十六	shí liù
17	十七	shí qī
18	十八	shí bā
19	十九	shí jiǔ
20	二十	èr shí

Let’s Learn some of Chinese Language:

Animals in Chinese Language

Animals in Chinese Language
Animal	Pinyin	Characters
Rat	Shǔ	鼠
Dragon	Lóng	龙
Ox	Niú	牛
Tiger	Hǔ	虎
Rabbit	Tù zǐ	兔子
Snake	Shé	蛇
Sheep	Yáng	羊
Horse	Mǎ	马
Monkey	Hóu	猴
Rooster	Gōng jī	公鸡
Dog	Gǒu	狗
Pig	Zhū	猪

Let’s Learn Colors in Chinese Language

Colors in Chinese Language
Color	Pinyin	Character
Colors	yán sè	颜色
White	bái sè	白色
Grey	huī sè	灰色
Black	hēi sè	黑色
Blue	lán sè	蓝色
Green	lǜ sè	绿色
Yellow	huáng sè	黄色
Red	hóng sè	红色
Brown	zōng sè	棕色
Orange	chéng sè	橙色
Purple	zǐ sè	紫色

Days of the Week in Chinese

Days of the Week in Chinese Language
Day	Pinyin	Character
Days	xīng qī	星期
Sunday	xīng qī rì	星期日
Saturday	xīng qī liù	星期六
Friday	xīng qī wǔ	星期五
Thursday	xīng qī sì	星期四
Wednesday	xīng qī sān	星期三
Tuesday	xīng qī èr	星期二
Monday	xīng qī yī	星期一

Body Parts in the Chinese Language

Body Parts in Chinese Language
Body Parts	Pinyin	Character
head	tóu	头
face	liǎn	脸
hair	tóu fā	头发
eye	yǎn	眼
ear	ěr duǒ	耳朵
nose	bí zi	鼻子
mouth	kǒu	口
hand	shǒu	手
tooth	yá chǐ	牙齿
heart	xīn zàng	心脏
stomach	wèi	胃
arm	gē bì	胳臂
foot	jiǎo	脚
leg	tuǐ	腿

Weather and Seasons in the Chinese Language

Weather and Seasons in Chinese Language
Weather	Pinyin	Character
weather	tiān qì	天气
windy	yǒu fēng	有风
cloudy	duō yún	多云
raining	xià yǔ	下雨
sunny	qíng lǎng	晴朗
snowing	xià xuě	下雪
cold	lěng	冷
hot	rè	热
Seasons
Autumn	qiū jì	秋季
Winter	dōng tiān	冬天
Spring	chūn tiān	春天
Summer	xià tiān	夏天

The Top 10 Chinese Movies for Kids

• Little Door Gods 小门神 （Xiǎo Mén Shén）
• The Magic Brush 神笔马良 (shén bǐ mǎ liáng)
• Kung Food 美食大冒险之英雄烩 (měi shí dà mào xiǎn zhī yīng xióng huì)
• Kung Fu Boys 龙拳小子 ( Lóng Quán Xiǎo Zi)
• Lunar New Year’s Day 元日 (Yuǎn Rì)
• On Happiness Road 幸福路上 (Xìng fú lù shàng)
• Kung Fu Panda 功夫熊貓 (Gōng fū xióng māo)
• Big Fish & Begonia 大鱼海棠 （Dà yú hǎi táng）
• Flavors of Youth 肆式青春 （Sì shì qīng chūn
• Yi Yi: A One and a Two 一一 (Yī yī)
• Little Door Gods 小门神 Xiǎo mén shén
• Lunar New Year’s Day 元日 (Yuǎn rì)

Let’s Sing Songs in English Language For you Kids ( Songs are translated in Chinese)

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in Chinese

一闪一闪亮晶晶

yī shǎn yī shǎn liàng jīng jīng

满天都是小星星

mǎn tiān dū shì xiǎo xīng xīng

挂在天边放光明

guà zài tiān biān fàng guāng míng

好像许多小眼睛

hǎo xiàng xǔ duō xiǎo yǎn jīng

一闪一闪亮晶晶

yī shǎn yī shǎn liàng jīng jīng

满天都是小星星

mǎn tiān dū shì xiǎo xīng xīng

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high,

like a diamond in the sky

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Itsy Bitsy Spider in the Chinese Language

一只两只蜘蛛爬呀爬出来，

yī zhī liǎng zhī zhī zhū pá ya pá chū lái

雨水落下来帮它洗洗澡，

yǔ shuǐ luò xià lái bāng tā xǐ xǐ zǎo

太阳出来了照着它身体呀

tài yáng chū lái le zhào zhé tā shēn tǐ ya

一只两只蜘蛛爬呀爬出来

yī zhī liǎng zhī zhī zhū pá ya pá chū lái

Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

Now Itsy Bitsy spider went up the spout again!